Method of and means for wiring bottles.



No. 656,513. Patented Aug. 2|, I900.

P. F. CASSIDY. METHOD OF AND MEANSFOR WIRING BOTTLES.

(Applicatiun filed June 26 1899.) (N o M o d el n4: Nonms pcrzns co. wofou'rna, wasumoron. u. c.

STATES NITED PATENT Orricn.

TO NEIL F. DOHERTY, OF SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR WIRING BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,513, dated. August 21, 1900.

Application filed June 26,1899.

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK F. CASSIDY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of and Means for Wiring Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention contemplates certain new and useful improvements in wiring bottles.

The object is to provide an improved method and means for securing or fastening the cork or other stopper, whereby the operation may be quickly and easily accomplished by means the embodiment of simplicity and inexpensiveness.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view of a wire ready to be applied to a bottle-neck. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the top of a bottle-neck with the wire applied and drawn out by a tool. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same with the ends of the wire turned over the cork and under the end of the tool. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the wire after the tool has been rotated to twist the same. Fig. 5 is a plan or top view of the same. Fig. 6 is an elevation showing the wire turned down after the twisting. Fig. 7is aside view of the end of the tool for twisting the wire, and Fig. 8 is an end View of same. Fig. 9 is a side viewof the complete tool employed an twisting the wire.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bottle-neck, and a the rim around the top of such neck, forming an annular shoulder.

B isa wire which is bent back upon itself to form the loop b and two parallel ends 19 the two sections of the wire being twisted together at their centers. The loop is considerably larger than the neck of the bottle to which the fasteneris to be applied, and the free ends beyond the central twisting are of sufficient length to enable them to be carried up over the top of the bottle in engagement with the cork or stopper, and thence down to the other side of the bottle-neck. In practice the loop is inserted over the bottle-neck, and is somewhat elongated as it is drawn lengthwise in such manner as to bind the end Serial No. 721,865. (No model.)

of the twist'against the neck. While the loop is then held tight the free ends of the two sections are carried up, then over the cork, and then down at the other side, and placed in engagement with the elongated end of the loop, whereupon the latter and the two ends of the wire are twisted togetherby suitable means in such manner that the inner end of the twist will extend up to the bottle-n eck beneath the shoulder formed by the rim a. In thus twisting the loop and the ends of the wire a small ring 12 is formed or left in the end of the loop by grasping which the fastener may be easilybroken or nntwisted in opening the bottle.

In applying the wire to a bottle-neck I preferably employ a specially-constructed device, which embodies a handle C, sleeve D, spiral rod E, and holding-catch F. The outer end of the spiral rod carries a peculiarly-constructed tool G in the form of a crook, which is so bent as to insure the twisting together of the loop and the free ends of the Wire. In starting to wire a' bottle the device is in a closed position-that is to say, the spiral rod E is within the sleeve D. The end of the tool G is first inserted into the loop I) and drawn up so as to somewhat elongate the latter and cause it to engage one side of the bottle-neck, as shown in Fig. 2. While the loop is-thus held the ends I) of the wire are then bent over the top of the cork and carried down the other side and placed under the crooked end of the tool, as shown in Fig. 3. The device is then given a slight turn, whereupon the catch F is pressed down and the handle C is drawn out, causing by reason of the turning of the spiral thewire to be twisted, as shown in Figs. at and 5, when the tool is readily removed by turning it slightly back and leaving a small ring formed of the loop-wire. Then this twisted portion of the wire is bent down, as shown in Fig. 6, the operation being completed. When desired to remove the cork, the small ring b formed by the tool G, can be taken hold of and the wire readily untwisted, thus dispens ing with any tool for breaking the wire.

I claim as my invention 1. The method-herein described of wiring bottles, consisting of bending awire and twist-ing the two sections at their centers,

forming a loop and two free ends, placing the loop around a bottle-neck, elongating the loop endwise, at one side of the bottle-neck, passing the free ends of the wire up the other side of the bottle-neck, then over the stopper and then down at the side of location of, and into engagement with, the elongated loop, and then twisting or winding together the loop and the said free ends of the wire, as set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bottlestopper fastener consisting of a single wire bent back upon itself to form a loop and two parallel ends, the two sections of the wire being twisted together,'forming a common center, said twisted portion being designed to fit against one side of the neck of a bottle inserted through the loop, the free ends of the Wire being extended upwardly and downwardly to accommodate and engage a bottlestopper, and means for uniting together said free ends and the loop at the side of the bottleneck opposite to that with which the twisted portion is in engagement.

3. As an article of manufacture, a bottlestopper fastener consisting of a single wire bent back upon itself to form a loop and two parallel ends, the two sections of the wire being twisted together, forming a common center, said twisted portion being designed to fit against one side of the neck of a bottle inserted through the loop, the free ends of the wire being extended upwardly and downwardly toaccommodate and engage a bottlestopper, and means for uniting together said free ends and the loop at the side of the bottle neck opposite to that with which the twisted portion is in engagement, and a ring formed by the wire at the end of the twisted portion of the loop and the free ends, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses,

PATRIOK F. GASSIDY. WVitn esses:

EDWIN PLANTA, THOMAS S WALL. 

